Re: Samba Permissions

***Note****

What follows is the suggestion I gave to a fellow member concerning samba. He was having a problem similar to yours (write access, etc). I believe the only difference was that he was mounting the samba share using a command in inittab. I hope it helps.

***end note***

The mount command (which is run as root during startup script execution)
will assign the group id and user id on all files of a mounted volume to the
user running the command. Since you are doing it at startup, all files gid
and uid are set to root.

Try this:

mount -t vfat -o gid=[gid of samba user(s)] -o uid=[uid of samba user(s)]
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/data1

where:
gid=group id
uid=user id

get the gid and uid from /etc/passwd

setting the 'auto' flag in fstab will mount any volume automatically at
startup rather than generating a seprate script file to do it.

also, the uid and gid of the mountpoint dir (/mnt/data1) will also be set to
the gid and uid specified in the mount command above.

For this to work, the samba user must be defined in both the/etc/passwd and
/etc/smbpasswd files. /etc/passwd for setting the uid and gid;
/etc/smbpasswd for access to the share defined in smb.conf.

Hope this helps....(sharply scold me if it doesn't)

I learned this the hard way when I tried to utilize my zip drive on the
linux box from my windoze box and couldn't write any files to it.

Aaron Cronkright
aaron@cronkright.com

----- Original Message -----

From: "Christopher Rector" <crector@siumed.edu>

To: "Central Illinois Linux Users Group" <luci-discuss@luci.org>

Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:08 AM

Subject: Samba persmissions

> I'm having permissions problems on a Samba configuration.
>
> I'm setting up a test box with Redhat 7.1 and Samba 2.2.2 and want to
> create a common share folder I want everyone to have both read and write
> access to anything in the folder.
>
> What I'm getting is a folder that allows anyone to read a file, but only
> the owner/creator can modify the file. On my test set up I have set the
> linux permissions on the folder to 777 (testing only), the permissions
> on the smb.conf/NT side are create mask = 0644
> directory mask = 0755 / on the NT side it's set for change permissions.
>
> Can anyone help me get this set correctly? I'm a relative newbie on
> Linux and am currently trying to get away from the dependence on
> Micro$oft.
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Rector, MCSE
> Computer Information Specialist
> Southern Illinois University
> School of Medicine
> Department of Ob/Gyn
> 217-545-9182